Syed Waqas Haider Shah Dr.

About

Syed is a leading communication theorist and policy researcher with a focus on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), committed to advancing intelligent, resilient, and sustainable wireless networks of the future. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Previously, he was a Juan-de-la-Cierva Research Fellow at IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid, where he explored ISAC across multi-band, multi-static, and multi-technology wireless networks. During this Fellowship, he contributed to the development of one of the first 5G-NR compliant long-range in-band wireless control mechanisms for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and served as Co-Principal Investigator of the TUCAN6-CM proje

Selected publications

• S. Sharma, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, J. O. Lacruz, and J. Widmer, “DFT-Based Spectral Precoding for Scalable Unique-Word OFDM”, IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2026.3698599, Jun. 2026.
• E. Illi, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, M. Qaraqe, S. Althunibat, and T. Alshamaseen, “RIS Strategies for Secure Communications: Balancing Resources and Channel Aging”, IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3620219, Oct. 2025.
• S.P. Deram, M. Rossanese, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, V. Sciancalepore, J. Widmer, and X.C. Perez, “RISENSE: Long-Range In-Band Wireless Control of Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces”, in Proc. of 23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2025).
• T. Alshamaseen, E. Illi, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, S. Althunibat and M. Qaraqe, "Secrecy Performance of a RIS-Assisted Wireless Network: A Comprehensive Analysis Under Outdated CSI", in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. pp. 1914-1930, Mar. 2025.
• Syed Waqas Haider Shah, M. Qaraqe, S. Althunibat, and J. Widmer, “Optimizing QoS in Secure RIS-Assisted mmWave Network With Channel Aging”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 1416-1432, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3460377.
• Syed Waqas Haider Shah, M. Qaraqe, S. Althunibat, and J. Widmer, “On the Impact of Age of Channel Information on Secure RIS-enabled mmWave Networks”, in Proc of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-2024), Singapore, 2024.
• S. Sharma, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, and J. Widmer, “A Low-Complexity Standard-Compliant PAPR Reduction Scheme for OTFS Modulation”, in Proc of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-2024), Singapore, 2024.
• Syed Waqas Haider Shah, S. P. Deram, and J. Widmer, “On the Effective Capacity of RIS-enabled mmWave Networks with Outdated CSI”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2023), New York, United States, 2023.
• A.N. Mian, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, A. Said, S. Manzoor, and Jon Crowcroft, “A value-added IoT service for cellular networks using federated learning”, Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 213, August 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109094
• Syed Waqas Haider Shah, A. N. Mian, S. Mumtaz, and Jon Crowcroft, “Statistical QoS Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-assisted D2D Communication”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 7343-7358, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3165467.